Investment intentions for the year ahead were mixed, with increases in spending expected in product and process innovation but declines forecast in training and retraining and investment in buildings.
Less investment will mean that it costs a company more to raise equity to make an investment in a new product or process.
As with most puzzles, the thrill of solution lies in the process, rather than the product.
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This shift requires digitally disrupting your process in order to digitally disrupt your product.
Alfresco was about to launch new tablet-oriented features for their flagship content-management product and were in the process of conducting a survey on tablet use among their customers.
In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
As commonly defined in our industry, branding is the process of creating a feeling, attitude or perception in a person towars a product or company.
This breakthrough resulted in a color inkjet all-in-one product line that virtually eliminates the feature trade offs customers faced in their selection process.
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The customer development process provided us with keen insight early in our product development cycle.
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In the Era of Product Recalls, for example, the very choice of the materials used in the manufacturing process can be subject to ongoing review.
The project intends to use a proprietary process employing an in-duct scrubber to reclaim the alkaline clay produced as the primary by-product of the aluminum manufacturing process.
Microsoft is currently in the process of migrating users from its Windows Live Messenger product to the service.
In general, the sterilization process for producing batches of injectable product was not validated ( here is the inspection report).
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It is an inherently giving process, with the entrepreneur supplying the product in the hope that it will be wanted.
We need enough freedom to let employees dream up next year's blockbuster product while also ensuring that, in the process, their ambitions don't harm the public and bankrupt the company.
In all this consolidation, the compression of the product development process, what are the risks?
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This process works for almost any type of product, in any industry, for any size of company.
Renault is looking to build relationships with young, innovative businesses (less than four years' existence) which are either in the process of developing or which have already released their first product or service.
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Nature is also an important source of inspiration in many industries, providing prototypes for all kinds of product or process innovations.
Professionals with this job title are typically involved in the entire software development process to ensure the quality of the final product.
This time line is inherent to fundamental innovation, even when done optimally, for the process is not linear from research to development to product in the market.
He found that the common thread during the periods of their most successful product and process innovations was the systems they put in place to encourage employees to conduct frugal experiments.
In addition to managing our spending in line with the current environment, we are also in the process of reassessing the strategy within each of our PC-related product categories to deliver improved performance.
In a 1970 law the government stopped recognizing product patents on drugs but respected process patents.
In the process of getting your work done, did you stumble upon a new product or service that your company could capitalize on?
The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.
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Unless you have a system in place to systematically evaluate and incorporate the ideas you hear from your stakeholders into your product management process, you will continue to alienate the people you most value.
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